Yesterday Lunch:
-green tea
-fish oil
-spinach salad w/ feta and peanut sauce that i accidently poured on. i just wasn't thinking and poured peanut sauce on a salad that contained feta. was this a big deal? no. i ate and it tasted weird and i didn't think about it again until this very moment.
-tomato
-walnuts
Supper:
-1 Long Island Iced Tea. fancy chinese restaurant version with sake in addition to the other 5 kinds of liqours. as far as most liqour for your buck goes, it's hard to beat the long island iced tea. i mean, martinis and manhattens are pretty much straight liqour, but i'm talking like mixed drinks. real martinis (with gin or vodka and vermouth only, not like the oversweetened overpriced cocktails on fancy bar menus) and manhattens say something a little different; it seems grown-up or something to order a drink that tastes bad. sometimes you want a drink that kind of tastes bad. it is strange. rarely do i feel like eating bad tasting food out of the garbage, but i sometimes do like drinks that make me cringe a little when i taste them. i am not knocking martinis or manhattens or even the overpriced oversweet fake martinis with cutesy names like the chocotini or the loganberry frostini. all of these drinks have their place. in the world of mixed drinks, though, the long island iced tea is king. there's like 5 different things in there. they were my favorite drink to make as a bartender because you could pour like 4 or 5 bottles at the same time and it looked like you were an exacting chemist, a student of booze. (for my least favorite drink to make, please scroll down.) it was my roommate's birthday. peking tom's.
-1 Bud Light. bluegrass at the cantab. it was a busy night.
-salmon fillet with olive oil, greent tomatos and fennel
-steamed kale with lemon juice and soy sauce
did you notice that i referred to the evening meal as supper rather than dinner?
Today Morning:
-banana
-coffee
-2 hardboiled eggs
Lunch:
-the always dependably good chicken kabob salad. there was a long line today, but as usual the falafel king himself recognized me and called me his beautiful friend like he does to everyone else and it warmed my heart. seriously that dude should run for office. i would vote for him. well, maybe - if it was for like alderman or selectman or something that i don't think has a lot of actual power. i bet he would handle business nicely and extremely efficiently. he'd be pretty much the perfect bureaucrat.
-green tea
-fish oil
-carrots
*old-fashioneds. old-fashioneds are such a pain to make. a lot of times you'd have to go back to the kitchen to get sugar and then you had to find the right kind of spoon to mottle everything and it just took forever. annoy your local bartender by asking them to make you an old-fashioned on an extremely busy night at the bar. for bonus points, send the drink back because it doesn't taste right and be a semi-regular whom the bartender remembers as an inadequate tipper and sloppy drunk.
-green tea
-fish oil
-spinach salad w/ feta and peanut sauce that i accidently poured on. i just wasn't thinking and poured peanut sauce on a salad that contained feta. was this a big deal? no. i ate and it tasted weird and i didn't think about it again until this very moment.
-tomato
-walnuts
Supper:
-1 Long Island Iced Tea. fancy chinese restaurant version with sake in addition to the other 5 kinds of liqours. as far as most liqour for your buck goes, it's hard to beat the long island iced tea. i mean, martinis and manhattens are pretty much straight liqour, but i'm talking like mixed drinks. real martinis (with gin or vodka and vermouth only, not like the oversweetened overpriced cocktails on fancy bar menus) and manhattens say something a little different; it seems grown-up or something to order a drink that tastes bad. sometimes you want a drink that kind of tastes bad. it is strange. rarely do i feel like eating bad tasting food out of the garbage, but i sometimes do like drinks that make me cringe a little when i taste them. i am not knocking martinis or manhattens or even the overpriced oversweet fake martinis with cutesy names like the chocotini or the loganberry frostini. all of these drinks have their place. in the world of mixed drinks, though, the long island iced tea is king. there's like 5 different things in there. they were my favorite drink to make as a bartender because you could pour like 4 or 5 bottles at the same time and it looked like you were an exacting chemist, a student of booze. (for my least favorite drink to make, please scroll down.) it was my roommate's birthday. peking tom's.
-1 Bud Light. bluegrass at the cantab. it was a busy night.
-salmon fillet with olive oil, greent tomatos and fennel
-steamed kale with lemon juice and soy sauce
did you notice that i referred to the evening meal as supper rather than dinner?
Today Morning:
-banana
-coffee
-2 hardboiled eggs
Lunch:
-the always dependably good chicken kabob salad. there was a long line today, but as usual the falafel king himself recognized me and called me his beautiful friend like he does to everyone else and it warmed my heart. seriously that dude should run for office. i would vote for him. well, maybe - if it was for like alderman or selectman or something that i don't think has a lot of actual power. i bet he would handle business nicely and extremely efficiently. he'd be pretty much the perfect bureaucrat.
-green tea
-fish oil
-carrots
*old-fashioneds. old-fashioneds are such a pain to make. a lot of times you'd have to go back to the kitchen to get sugar and then you had to find the right kind of spoon to mottle everything and it just took forever. annoy your local bartender by asking them to make you an old-fashioned on an extremely busy night at the bar. for bonus points, send the drink back because it doesn't taste right and be a semi-regular whom the bartender remembers as an inadequate tipper and sloppy drunk.
posted by Griff at 1:06 PM
2 Comments:
at what point did the Long Island Iced Tea become an acceptable drink? don't tell me it's in drink manuals now! i remember, before roofies were hip, when these were huge on LI & known as the Date Rape Drink. that's so weird that guys are now ordering them for themselves... did you take advantage of yourself like Tom Waits afterwards?
oh crap, i didn't realize someone commented on this. yeah, i think the long island iced tea is pretty much standard now. grateful deads are a little less common but pretty much the same idea: same ingregients as the LIIT but with chambord and sprite instead of coke. the idea with both of them of course is to get a really strong drink that tastes ok.
i was not aware of the LIIT's history as a date rape aid, although i did take advantage of tom waits afterwards.
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